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On 15/05/11 20:47, Gordon Henderson wrote: > >> Yes. Kinda goes with the territory, though. > > With 3 exceptions, (Wife and her parents), I now tell them I'm not > interested. I find telling them "I'm busy until ...X..." usually does the trick more diplomatically since the questions are usually asked when things are broken but need to be used, so they are always urgent(ish). Of course if it fails one can always have something else come up when you thought you could help. At this point I'm so far behind on Windows I'm the wrong person to ask, I can usually solve most of the issues quickly but more and more I'm hitting weird things that regular Windows techies would "just know" that I don't. Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq